How They Did It
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How They Did It: The Te Ata Director on Taking Cues from the Chickasaw Nation and Respecting Their Legacy
When I first received the script for Te Ata, I wondered how I might connect with a Native American woman from the... -
How They Did It: A Spread-Out Schedule and Streamlined Crew Helped Negative Make Its Days
It was the middle of the night. We were out in the high desert of the Antelope Valley, north of Los Angeles,... -
How They Did It: This Cinematographer Shot and Survived Explosive Wildfires For The Netflix Doc Series Fire Chasers
Exploding propane tanks and live rounds, swirling firestorms, 10-ton airborne retardant drops, invisible fire pits and some of the most explosive fire... -
How They Did It: Shooting a Flashlit Prison Horror Movie, Against the Night, on the Sony a7S
From conception, my feature Against the Night, about a group of friends who sneak into an abandoned prison, was always going to... -
Distribute and Conquer: How the Director of "2500km" Landed Her $500 Short Film an HBO Premiere
My name is Daniela Arguello. I’m the director, writer, producer, camera operator and cinematographer of my short film “2500km.” “2500km” is about... -
How They Did It: This Director Braved Wasps and Morning Sickness to Shoot Moko Jumbie in Trinidad While Pregnant
My first feature, Moko Jumbie, is a Gothic Caribbean love story set in rural Trinidad. Its protagonist is Asha, a young girl searching for... -
How They Did It: I Set a Start Date for My $250,000 Film, September Morning, and Stuck to it No Matter What
“How did you find the money?” That’s the question I’ve gotten most from my fellow indie filmmakers the last couple of years.... -
Family Affair: How the Director of Baby Steps Used the Making of the Film to Connect To His Mother
About six years ago, I was searching for a feature film topic. I’d already directed six short films. Making a feature was... -
On the Inside: To Make His Feature Shot Caller, Ric Roman Waugh Learned How to Shoot in a Real-Life Prison
Shot Caller was the most physically demanding film I ever shot: an authentic look at our prison gangs and the law enforcement... -
Knowing When to End It: Our Doc On a Knife Edge Took Seven Years to Make. Here’s What We Learned on the Way
For several years, our documentary On a Knife Edge had a great beginning and a wonderful middle, but no end in sight....
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Sydney on the Map: To Land Breakout Roles, Sydney Sweeney Draws Her Own Maps of the Characters She Inhabits
A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning teen with a flair for the dramatic; a mysterious denizen...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies
The biggest change I experienced when I went from making pictures to making films was the sense of an arc—of creating a story over time, and...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: Casting Unknowns Was Key to Finding the Laughs and Lived-In Feel of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Before I directed my first film, Eighth Grade, I had heard that 90 percent of directing is casting. I’m sure there are other directors who weigh...2